Wolfram Alpha - move over Google

[gecko]

Wow....

An invention that will change the internet forever

In reply to:

---

---

 

[Hornius Emeritus]

In reply to:

---

---

 

[MTF]

When it becomes self-aware, we're screwed

 

[NEWDOC2002]

In reply to:

---

---

 

[kgp]

He also wrote Mathematica, a remarkable problem-solving and graphing software package. I used it on some Schroedinger equations that would have been very thorny to work out by hand.

 

[MaduroUTMB]

In reply to:

---

---

 

[MilkmanDan]

Nah, if he were that fancy he'd have worked in the ö. And left out the extra e.

 

[YouTeeAye]

>>The biggest internet revolution for a generation will be unveiled this month

No sir, the day when someone invents a site that given any arbitrary homework problem will tell me the solution in detail will be the biggest Internet revolution (ability to customize it before printing to fool the teacher from thinking you just copy-pasted it would make the inventor a slamdunk Turing Award winner). That will leave me plenty of time to concentrate on more important things in my life -- such as, reading Hornfans forums.

 

[Fried JJ Pickles]

This isn't new. It's over two decades in the making.

And it's happening in Austin too. A group in Austin (Cycorp) does a lot of work in this area. They've been around for about 15 years.

I've mentioned a few times on the West Maul that recovery.gov is dropping massive amounts of government data which will allow search engines to answer all kinds of queries. It's placing much of the data in a format that can be understood by these knowledge engines.

And this isn't something that comes out of left field either. Google and Yahoo have been working on semantic engines for at least as long as Wolfram.

As lightweight of a piece as this seems, these technologies are the real deal and are at the center of what most people are calling web 3.0

 

[LonghornCougar]

In reply to:

---

---

 

[accuratehorn]

It might be highly advanced, but I bet it would meltdown if asked to explain aggy.

 

[Napoleon]

I hang out with some guys who went to Eton down here in Buenos Aires. HOWEVER, I think that they are much more the "legacy" type than the "brilliant" type. Most good schools have both under their roof.

 

[general35]

will it dream?

 

[NameAlreadyInUse]

In reply to:

---

---

 

[wherzwaldo]

In reply to:

---

---

 

[Dionysus]

So will it tell me if Schroedinger's cat is dead or not? And don't give me that superposition/potentiality crap or I swear I'll go full special relativity on you.

 

[Statalyzer]

In reply to:

---

---

 

[Bevo Incognito]

It's out:

The Link

 

[kgp]

If I enter a height and weight and "bmi," Alpha returns all kinds of great information. If I enter "Jon Bible UT," it is stumped. It is cool but has a way to go.